On October 5,2022,one of the Seven Network’s most powerful executives sent an extraordinary email to a young media reporter.
The actor,who dropped a defamation case against this masthead over allegations of sexual harassment,is trying for a career comeback.
The ever-growing cluster of self-immolation surrounding the Lehrmann case has now remorselessly spread to journalism,thrusting it into the unaccustomed role of guilty bystander while besmirching a profession vitally important to a fairer society.
Taylor Auerbach says Tziporah Malkah posted an “intimate image” of him on Facebook on Christmas Day 2019. Police are now probing claims he leaked naked photos of her.
Spotlight producers thought their interview with Bruce Lehrmann would be “the most amazing thing on Australian TV ever”. But new texts show a different story.
The spotlight has been turned back onto Seven’s current affairs show.
Hedonistic parties feature in a previously unseen draft of a memoir by Higgins that has been brought to light in a reopened defamation lawsuit.
Spotlight’s efforts to woo Bruce Lehrmann have done the journalistic profession few favours. Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World was shut down for less.
Outgoing commercial director Bruce McWilliam distanced the network’s senior executives from Spotlight executive producer Mark Llewellyn in fresh evidence in court on Thursday afternoon.
Taylor Auerbach,a former senior producer on Seven’s Spotlight program,claims Bruce Lehrmann purchased a bag of cocaine while they were dining at a Sydney restaurant.
An accusation catapulted the ex-Liberal staffer into the public consciousness from the obscurity of former roles in government and at British American Tobacco.